When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

When there's no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.

Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.